Buying Trifurcon pins: loose, tin plated
Trifurcon .156 inch female pins have three contact fingers and grip the header better than standard pins (there is no .100 inch version). Buy them loose in bags rather than on strips or reels, which are hard to cut cleanly, and choose tin plating, not gold.
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Source: Repairing DataEast 1987 (Laser War) to Sega 1995 (Batman Forever), Part One, Clay Harrell (pinrepair.com)